SunSport and F1 driver Valtteri Bottas visit £2 Mexican taco stand with first-ever Michelin star

LA Taqueria el Califa de Leon is the humble marketplace stall selling £2 tacos that went to Michelin prima earlier this year.

At this weekend's Mexico Grand Prix, F1 operator Valtteri Bottas visited the taco hotspot, truthful F1 newsman Isabelle Barker followed suit to spot what each the fuss is about.

The stand, which has conscionable 4 items connected the menu, made headlines connected May 14 aft it was crowned with a Michelin prima aft the usher debuted successful Mexico for the archetypal clip ever this year.

It is simply a 10ft-by-10ft taco store tucked down a enactment of thoroughfare stalls successful the working-class San Rafael neighbourhood.

There was a tiny queue of chiefly tourists extracurricular erstwhile SunSport visited astir 6pm connected Wednesday night.

They were eagerly waiting to illustration its 4 types of carne asada (grilled steak) tacos, which is the lone happening connected the menu.

Prices scope from £2.50 to £4 which is really considered costly by Mexican standards for a taco.

Sauber operator Bottas, who utilized to spouse Lewis Hamilton astatine Mercedes, visited the basal connected Tuesday.

He posted a representation of him extracurricular the basal to his Instagram with the caption: "Michelin prima taco Tuesday."

The taco itself is no-frills, with the owners priding themselves successful the prime of the nutrient arsenic good arsenic their homemade tortillas.

There are wedges of lime oregon salsa rojo and salsa verde connected the broadside to drizzle implicit the taco.

The basal has been astir for much than 50 years and is known for its Gaonera taco, which is said to beryllium named successful honour of Mexican bullfighter Rodolfo Gaona.

The Michelin Guide website said: "This taqueria whitethorn beryllium bare bones with conscionable capable country for a fistful of diners to basal astatine the antagonistic but its creation, the Gaonera taco, is exceptional."